Clayton Sandell and Jeffrey Cook report: A Colorado district attorney expressed frustration Thursday at not being able to prosecute an Aurora police officer who was found passed out drunk in his car last year, calling the department’s failure to launch a DUI investigation a double standard meant to protect one of its own. There’s a lot that’s…
Category: Workplace
New Year, New Local Ban-the-Box Restrictions on Background Checks
Alison Hightower and Rod Fliegel of Littler write: With the start of a new year—and a new decade—employers in San Francisco, California, Waterloo, Iowa, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, must follow new “ban-the-box” laws restricting their use of criminal records in hiring and personnel decisions. In addition, Maryland’s statewide ban-the-box law becomes operative on February 29, 2020.1 Looking…
The Coronavirus and Your Rights as an Employee
Richard Dahl writes: As you read about the spread of Covid-19 (a.k.a. “the coronavirus”), you understandably might want to turn into a hermit. When it comes to your own time, that may not be hard to do. You could stock up on groceries, catch up on your reading, and binge-watch “Better Call Saul.” When it…
Ontario, Canada: New “False Light” Privacy Tort and How It Might Impact Employers
Rhonda B. Levy and Barry Kuretzky of Littler write: Yenovkian v. Gulian, 2019 ONSC 7279 is a recent family law decision that is significant beyond the family law context, including in the employment law context. In this decision, Justice Kristjanson of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice recognized a new invasion of privacy tort: “publicity…